First edition of Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ sells for $843K after monster bidding war
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An auction of collector William Strutz's library fetched whopping prices for some of the rarest books -- topped by a monstrous sale price of more than $840,000 for a first-edition "Frankenstein."